Cartographies of the Network Society

The question about cyberspace has generally been polarized around the concepts real / virtual and natural / artificial. The notion of space stands out among the empirical categories that have been handled such as real and natural. The spread of Internet has perpetuated this controversy. Thus, it is possible to distinguish a new opposition: on one hand, cyberspace understood as a deterritorialized, democratic and meaningless non-place; on the other hand, as a place subject to territorializing and identity movements that would come to put new borders, including the digital divide, due to the dominance of globalization in the context of the network society. In this regard, thanks to the speed and possibility of almost universal interconnection, the dominant flows model the space through the inclusion and exclusion of those nodes, more or less valuable for their interests. This paper will focus on analyzing the (cyber)space, and therefore it will criticize the dialectical simplifying the dialectics center and periphery or territorialization and deterritorialization.